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hiking

verbnounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈhaɪkɪŋ//

Walking in the countryside for pleasure or sport.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of hikepresent participle and gerund of hike

noun

  1. 1

    Walking in the countryside for pleasure or sport.

    To protect the glacier, officials have limited the number of visitors to 10,000 a day and have banned hiking on the ice.

    Consulting the data provided by ARPS to the county, the county discovers that ARPS has erroneously stated that the parking area too was on solid ground when in fact the earth was ill suited to anything other than hikings.

  2. 2

    The act by which something is hiked, or raised sharply.

    Like in previous years, Government policies with regard to restraining price hikings have been dealing with curtailing credit supplies and bank liquidities […]

Forms

plural
hikings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).